Presidents
True or False. Following Lincoln’s assassination in 1867, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States
False. He was shot in 1865
______________, ended discrimination in renting and selling homes.
The Fair Housing Act of 1968
Reconstruction was the period of recovery and rebuilding in the southern United States following the _________________.
American Civil War
To African Americans, freedom meant ___________
Independence from white control
A war fought first over whether slavery should be allowed in the western expansion states, to preserve the Union, then whether slavery should be legal or not
The American Civil War
16th President
A. Lincoln
The roots of Jim Crow laws began as early as 1865, immediately following the ratification of the __________________, which abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
True or False. The Ten-Percent Plan was announced after Reconstruction started
The first major battle of the American Civil War
Battle of Bull Run or Battle of Manassas
Native-born white Republicans, included some businessmen and planters, but most were non-slaveholding small farmers from the Southern up-country.
Scalawags
His face is on the $50 dollar bill
US Grant
In 1965, the _____________ halted efforts to keep minorities from voting
Voting Rights Act
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into
Five military districts
The 13, 14 and 15 Amendments are called this
The Reconstruction Amendments
This term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders. It is a very derogatory name
Carpetbagger
19th President
Rutherford B. Hayes
A collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation and were meant to marginalize African Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities.
Jim Crow Laws
Reconstruction was also a healing of the ____, the tortures of slavery; rebuilding not only physical structures and governments, but _________ in the Federal Government. Rebuilding the United States of America
soul, trust
The three groups that made up Southern Republicanism.
Carpetbaggers, Scalawags and African Americans.
Loyal to the Union during the Civil War, they saw the Republican Party as a means of keeping Confederates from regaining power in the South. These Southerners were not liked by Southern Democrats.
Scalawags
He signed the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, which legally ended ____________.
Segregation
Under the Ten-Percent Plan, when one-tenth of a state’s prewar voters did this, they could establish a new state government.
took an oath of loyalty
It puts the principle of birthright citizenship into the Constitution and forbade states to deprive any citizen of the “equal protection” of the laws.
14th Amendment
Recent arrivals from the North, in the South
Carpetbaggers
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
This ruthless organization of the Jim Crow era, was born in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, as a private club for Confederate veterans.
KKK
During Reconstruction, President Johnson offered a pardon to all Southern whites except ______________ and wealthy planters, restoring their political rights and all property except ____________.
Confederate leaders, slaves
The Emancipation Proclamation became a historic document because it would redefine the Civil War, turning it from a struggle to ____________ to one focused on _____________.
preserve the Union, ending slavery
Battle which effectively discouraged the British and French governments from recognizing the Confederacy
Battle of Antietam
Lincoln
Memphis teacher Ida B. Wells became a prominent activist against Jim Crow laws after refusing to ____
_________________________________________.
leave a first-class train car designated for white people only.
President Johnson outlined how new state governments would be created. They had to _________________, repudiate secession, and abrogate (annul-cancel) the Confederate debt
abolish slavery
Union soldiers, teachers, and businessmen were known in the South as ____________
Carpetbaggers
Mason-Dixon Line
Unofficial line dividing the north and the South